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myBlueprint Learning Styles Activity
myBlueprint Portfolio Activity
MyBlueprint
Overview
This module is intended to support middle school, high school and college students to explore the different features of myBlueprint Education Planner. In this moduel, learners can learn about myBlueprint and its numerous uses in in-person and online classrooms. It includes an introduction section, a navigation menu section, Who Am I section and a section about how to create a digital portfolio. Each section has an embedded tutorial that walks the learners with all the steps and information needed.
Introduction
The Edmonton Public School Board aims to implement Myblueprint as part of Career and Technology Studies as per the Alberta Program Studies, mainly for junior and high school students.
MyBlueprint is an online education and career planning platform that provides tools and resources to help individuals plan their educational and career paths. It is commonly used in schools, universities, colleges and educational institutions to assist students in making informed decisions about their future.
The platform typically offers features like interest and skills assessments, course planning, resume building, goal setting, and access to information about various career options. It's designed to help users explore different educational and career pathways and make choices that align with their interests, skills, and goals.
MyBluePrint Features
Discover yourself
Five comprehensive Who Am I assessments help students discover their learning and personality styles, interests, desired knowledge, and motivation factors. Job specific compatibility surveys unlock powerful occupation matches based on real-world tasks to better inform student self-discovery.
Track towards graduation and beyond
The high school course planner (with optional Student Information System (SIS) integration) allows students to visually plan towards province-specific graduation requirements while instantly discovering their eligibility for every post-secondary pathway in Canada.
Explore your opportunities
Backward or forward planning with the most comprehensive post-secondary and career databases. Search, filter, and compare local, province-specific information on apprenticeships, programs, and occupations to ensure students make better decisions and are more prepared for the future.
Record and share what matters
Keep track of important experiences, activities, achievements, skills, and more with highly configurable resume and cover letter builders. Classroom, core competency, or career portfolios (to name a few) help convey student learning with documents, images, videos, and more. Students can then easily share an interactive portfolio link with others.
Learn real world skills
Understand the basics of money management and improve your financial literacy with actionable budgets, learn how to set and track towards SMART goals, and discover what local employers are looking for with job search tools that provide local, up-to-date listings tied directly to your occupations of interest.
Navigation Section
The "Navigation Menu Bar" section in myBlueprint is a key feature that helps students move through the platform efficiently and access different tools and resources. Options in this navigation menu include:
Dashboard: This is usually the first page you see upon logging in. It provides an overview of your progress, recent activities, and any important notifications.
Tasks: Complete tasks year to year to build a comprehensive career plan. You can ear points by completing tasks.
Class Activities: Complete customized activities and assignments by your teacher.
Goal Setting: This section might allow you to set both short-term and long-term goals related to your education and career.
Portfolios: It may provide a space for you to store and showcase your accomplishments, such as awards, projects, volunteer work, etc.
Explore Interests-Who Am I: This section might allow you to explore different careers based on your interests, skills, and preferences whilst doing the Meyyers Brigg personality assessment. It could include assessments or quizzes to help you identify potential career paths.
High School Planner: This section might help you plan your high school courses ,track your progress towards graduation, and post-secondary elgibilty for apprenticshep on an interactive checklist.
Post-Secondary Planner: This could assist in exploring different post-secondary options (colleges, universities, trade schools, etc.) and planning the necessary steps to get there.
Work: Allows you to explore the database of thousands of occupation profiles such as job duties, required education, salary ranges and more; it also helps you create and customize your resume, making it easier to apply for jobs or college programs; and craft a cover letter, providing prompts and templates to ensure that key information is included.
Money and Budgets:This tool helps users create and manage a budget, track income and expenses, and set financial goals.
Guides: This section offers many tools on career planning and resources.
Attribution: Video 1: "Explore the Navigation Menu Features myBlueprint Tutorial"by Hiba Rustom is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Who Am I?
The "Who Am I" section in myBlueprint is likely a feature designed to help users explore and understand themselves in terms of their interests, strengths, and preferences. This section typically includes activities and assessments, The Myers-Brigg Assessment, which assesses students on four dichotomies, each with two opposite poles, to help students gain insights into their personality traits, values, skills, and interests, which can be valuable in making informed decisions about education and career paths.
You can click on the Who AM I tutorial video to get acquainted with what it entails to complete these assessments.
Here's a general overview of what you might find in the "Who Am I" section:
Learning Styles Survey: The learning styles survey will help students identify how they learn best and the customer report provides them with a distribution of these learning styles that vary in percentage. For instance, we’ve got the visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learning styles . There is also a study section under each learning style to help students boost their learning such as using flash cards or hands on learning activities.
Personality Assessments: Theis survey is based on Myers-Brigg inventory that aims to provide insights into an individual's personality traits. It includes a simple breakdown dichotmies with two opposing poles such as whether students are more inclined to be introverted or extroverted, be detail-oriented or big-picture thinkers, etc.
Interest Inventories: These are assessments that help students identify their areas of interest. They may ask questions about hobbies, activities, and subjects that the user enjoys the most. It provides primary and secondary interst rate that coonects intersts with the overall matching interest type to their career perference.
Knowledge Survey: The knowledge survey generates results on what learners enjoy learning the most and lists the top three subject areas as well as the career clusters, mainly to refine any earlier occupation matches for valid and reliable results.
Motivation Assessments: The motivation survey considers various motivational factors and provide students with what motivates the most to feel happy and successful. Once all these surveys are completed the compatibility survey is unlocked.
Compatibility Survey: Once this survey is unlocked, it directs students you to a list of occupations that can be filtered according to education level and career clusters. Students can choose any career they prefer and answer Likert questions from not at all to definitely yes. A progress checklists is found on the Who Am I main Page that shows the rate of progress so far.
Attribution: Video 2:"Who Am I MyBlueprint Tutorial" by Hiba Rustom is licensed under CC BY 2.0
How To Build a Portfolio?
You can read thoroughly the steps below to create a portfolio as well as watch the tutorial when you click on myBlueprint Portflolio:
Log In to Your Account: Start by logging in to your myBlueprint account.
Navigate to the Portfolio Section: Locate the "Portfolio" section in the platform's navigation menu. This is where you'll find the tools and features related to creating and managing your portfolio.
Create a New Portfolio: There should be an option to create a new portfolio. Click on this to get started.
Add Content: Begin adding content to your portfolio. This could include documents, images, links, or descriptions of your work, projects, achievements, or experiences. Make sure to follow any specific guidelines or formats provided by myBlueprint.
Organize and Categorize: Depending on the capabilities of the portfolio feature, you may be able to categorize your content into sections or projects. This helps in presenting your work in a structured and organized manner.
Add Descriptions or Reflections: For each piece of work or achievement, consider adding descriptions or reflections. Explain the context, your role, skills utilized, and what you learned from the experience.
Save and Publish: Once you're satisfied with the content and organization of your portfolio, save your progress. If applicable, there might be an option to publish your portfolio so that it can be viewed by others.
Review and Edit: Periodically review and update your portfolio to reflect your latest achievements and experiences.
Attribution:
Video 3: "How to Create a Portfolio myBlueprint Tutorial" by Hiba Rustom is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Remix Video
I have created a remix of two videos already uploaded above with the following attributions:
Video 1: "Explore the Navigation Menu Features Tutorial myBlueprint" by Hiba Rustom is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Video 3: "How to Create a Portfolio myBlueprint Tutorial" by Hiba Rustom is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Remix Video is adapted from "Explore the Navigation Menu Features myBlueprint Tutorial" on myBlueprint by Hiba Rustom used under License CC BY 2.0; "How to Create a Portfolio myBlueprint Tutorial" by Hiba Rustom used licensed under CC BY 2.0.